Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
27 Broad Street
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Welshpool, Powys, designated on 11 March 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 11 March 1981
- Locality
- Welshpool
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.65959, -3.14775
- Cadw reference
- 7770
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In the block between the corner with Berriew Street and New Street.
Exterior
History: Built c1830, probably as a commercial building with accommodation above from the outset
Exterior: Painted brick with slate roof. 3 storeys, 2-window range. Modern shop front to ground floor, and passage entry to right, with continuous modern fascia. 12-pane sash windows to first floor, 6-panes to upper storey, with flat arched heads. Dentilled eaves band.
Included as a simple early C19 building retaining some original character and forming part of a coherent group at the centre of the town.
Reference: Ion Trant, The Changing Face of Welshpool, 1986, p.60.
Nearby in the register
- 26 Broad StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 28 Broad StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 25 Broad StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 29 Broad StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.